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Justia Dockets & Filings
"Buchla v. Buchla Electronic Musical Instrument, LLC et al
Plaintiff: Donald Buchla
Defendant: Buchla Electronic Musical Instrument, LLC, Audio Supermarket Pty. LTD., Danny Olesh, Michael Marans, Lewis Chiodo and John Fuller
Case Number: 3:2015cv00921
Filed: February 27, 2015
Court: California Northern District Court
Office: San Francisco Office
County: Alameda
Presiding Judge: Elizabeth D. Laporte
Nature of Suit: Contract: Other
Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Breach of Contract
Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff"
Left is a screenshot of the "ORDER RE CITIZENSHIP OF PARTIES" available at
JUSTIA Dockets & Filings. The full filing is not readily available however it was sent to me and I have read it in full. Below are the "GENERAL ALLEGATIONS" followed by the "PRAYER FOR RELIEF", which in legal speak is what the plaintiff, Don Buchla is requesting for the outcome. Note this is Don Buchla's side of the story. We do not have BEMI's. In short, the case pertains to BEMI not making good on agreements with Don Buchla. Buchla is claiming he was not paid what was agreed upon ("a minimum purchase price of $550,000" for the Buchla assets, "payment of $30,000 upon closing", "and to retain Mr. Buchla as Chief Technology Officer for a period of not fewer than two years at an annual salary of $96,000 for the first year and $108,000 for the second year"). Buchla claims the "defendants have paid Mr. Buchla less than $110,000", and he was subject to poor business dealings with BEMI including improper management of the company, its customers, and Buchla as an employee, namely the CTO, including wrongful termination.
"GENERAL ALLEGATIONS
A. The Buchla Story [this was background on Buchla history]
B. Defendants Induce Mr. Buchla to Sign an Unfavorable Agreement
C. Defendants Fail to Satisfy the Express Conditions Precedent of the Asset Purchase Agreement
D. Defendants Breach the Asset Purchase Agreement
1. Defendants Fail to Make Payments for Buchla & Associates
2. Defendants Fail to Account for the Sale of Music Easels
3. Defendants Fail to Make Rent Payments
4. Defendants Fail to Use Reasonable Business Efforts
5. Defendants Fail to Make a Good Faith Determination Regarding Mr. Buchla’s Availability
E. Defendants Breach the Employment Agreement
F. Defendants Attempt to Bind Mr. Buchla to Unconscionable and Internally Inconsistent Non-Compete, Right of First Refusal, and Right of First Offer Clauses"
"PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff Donald Buchla prays for the Court to enter a judgment against Defendants Buchla Electronic Musical Instrument, LLC, Audio Supermarket Pty. Ltd., Danny Olesh, Michael Marans, Lewis Chiodo, and John Fuller, individually and in their capacity as corporate employees and shareholders, and jointly and severally, as follows:
A. For all available equitable remedies, including but not limited to:
1. declaratory judgment that there is no valid or enforceable contract;
2. an injunction and/or writ of replevin ordering Defendants to return the assets, intellectual property, confirmed purchase orders, and goodwill of Buchla & Associates to Mr. Buchla;
3. an injunction prohibiting Defendants from future use of the assets, intellectual property, confirmed purchase orders, and goodwill of Buchla & Associates and Mr. Buchla;
4. restitution to compensate Mr. Buchla for damages; and
5. disgorgement of Defendants’ unjust enrichment;
B. For money damages in an amount to be proven at trial, but at least $500,000;
C. For an accounting of payments made and owed to Mr. Buchla under the Asset Purchase Agreement and Employment Agreement;
D. For prejudgment interest from the date of breach as provided by statute;
E. For the costs of suit and attorneys’ fees incurred;
F. For exemplary and/or treble damages; and
G. For such other, further or different relief as the Court deems just and proper.
Dated: February 27, 2015"
"The Imperial Computer System DM-16 is a very rare Vintage Analog Synth
"Ultra rare EKO Computerhythm, produced in very few exemplars ..this is one of 15-20 ever made and in so EXCELLENT conditions, a precious gem for synth collectors and electronic music composers. It was used in some famous J-M Jarre songs as 'OXIGENE' and performances. Impressive space age look with an unique lamps effects and a very special programming interface, 6x individual outputs! There are inlcuded five puch cards with very special drum presets, original skin cover lid and service manual. According with some synth collectors, it's one of the few early second series of the three produced releases. It was professionally serviced & recapped a pair of months ago, FULLY working, a GREAT example!"
Another one spotted by Florian Anwander who had the following to say:
"This is an auction on ebay Germany. The VMS - Voice Modular System' was a Curtis based synth, that provided
In this auction also a Sound Sampler Card,a MIDI-CV-interface, and a card for a polyphonic CV/Gate-Keyboard is included.
Original text of the auction in Googlish:
Update: Turns out this was not Doepfer's first creation (see the timeline here). You can find some history on the Sound Sampler previously captured here and here.
Partial translation of the text:
"This is a rare (funny how often that word is used but how little it actually applies to a listing) E-mu modular, 14 module system that was custom built by a prominent musician and a PhD student. It was used in the schools music program and advanced classes in the 70's. It was purchased directly from a university many years ago and still had the university logo and inventory number on it when I took possession. It was just a sticker and I removed it. I have had this Synthesizer for a long time and was always afraid to have it serviced until I meet a true expert on E-mu modulars and tracked down some schematics. I recently had i serviced and it works and sounds fantastic 
Every module was gone through by a master technician. All of the oscillators work and are some of the best sounding oscillators I have ever heard. If you follow my listings, or know me personally, you know that I have owned/sold some high end, great sounding synths.
"The synth is labeled Tunefisch Clone (Tunfish Clone). There has been a German electrical engineer living close to Hannover who built a few synths in the 1990s
The following is the description for the item in German followed by a Googlish translation:
Der McBass wurde in den 90er Jahren gebaut, hat 2 VCOs + Noise, 2 LFOs welche weit in den Audiobreich reichen ( somit ist auch obertonreiche Filter FM möglich ), Pulseweitemodulation, Filter Accent, Audioeingang, Midi... und so weiter. wirklich ein gutklingedes Gerät was mir sehr lange Freude bereitet hat. Ich würde ihn jetzt vielleicht irgendwo zwischen Pro-One, Minimoog und 303 Nachbau einordnen - aber am besten selbst mal antesten. Verkaufe ihn aus finanziellen Gründen. 
With its rows of coloured knobs and primitive displays the large grey cabinet looks like something from an old science fiction TV show and, in a way, it is.
"Up for sale is my MB33 Mk2, a rack-mountable true analog monophonic bass synthesizer with full MIDI implementation. It was originally developed in Bavaria by MAM (Music & More), but took the name of Terratec when the two companies joined forces in 2003.
The VCO is switchable between saw-tooth and square wave. Unlike on the earlier Mk1 version, there is also a sub-oscillator which can be mixed with either of the other two waveforms for ridiculously fat and punchy bass sounds. Also new on the Mk2 is an 18dB low pass filter (ie just like the TB303 - the Mk1 version's filter was 24dB) and a built-in distortion knob. Needless to say, there are also the usual controls for frequency cut-off, resonance, ENV mod, accent, decay, and autoslide, all of which can be sent/received via MIDI. Another feature, often overlooked for some reason, is a very useful VCF input for filtering external signals.
via the seller: "I am selling some vintage ARP encapsulated submodules. I bought them in 1972 and started to build a simple synthesizer. I did breadboard them and got them working, but life happened and that's as far as it went. They have been in a sealed box for many years. These are the first generation of ARP submodules, where the whole guts are sealed in epoxy. They are AS- IS, but I do believe they are still functional. If there's a questionable one, I'd guess it's the 4017 VCO, since I just had my 2600 cleaned up and the VCO had failed. I will include the diagrams from Tonus how to hook them up. I paid $470 for these back in the day."
Awesome bit of sound design in this portion of the film. I'm curious how much was recorded during the scene vs. afterwards. 
